OCALA : USA - FL

*Location:

   Clock Tower
   College of Central Florida
   SW 20th Street at SW 31st Avenue
   Ocala, Florida, USA
   LL: N 29.16588, W 82.17483
Site locator map

*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   College of Central Florida
   3001 S.W. College Road
   Ocala, FL  34474-4415
   T: 352-873-5800   F: 352-291-4450
   E: cartere@cf.edu

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Remarks:

   Added semitones sharp 4th & flat 7th
   Tower built by Verdin.
*Bass bell:
   C2, , 550 lb, 2005, P&F

*Technical data:

   Electric-keyboard chime of 14 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is C  in the treble octave
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   Transposition is up one octave
   There are two added semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 2005
     with bells made by Petit+Fritsen    
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details: 
     Height of console:                  - meters above ground
     Height of lowest level of bells:   (unknown)
     Height of highest level of bells:  (unknown)
     Belfry openness:  98%
   Year of latest technical information source is 2020
*Links:

On the college Website, a departmental index page has a photo of the bell tower.

Verdin Company project photo

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Petit & Fritsen bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all North American chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all North American chimes by weight (pitch).
Ranking among all North American chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in FL.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on  4-Oct-25
   based on textual data last updated on 2025/08/29
   and on technical data last updated on 2022/03/23
*Photos:

(none available)

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